Gilded Flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) - HBW 7, p. 513

Taxonomy:Geopicus (Colaptes) chrysoides Malherbe, 1852, Cape San Lucas, Baja California. Forms a superspecies with C. auratus. Genetically is not significantly divergent from SW “cafer group” of that species, and treated as conspecific by some authors, but separated to a reasonable extent by habitat preferences, with limited hybridization; considered better treated as allospecies. Races intergrade clinally. Four subspecies recognized.